Jamaica Has A Chance, But Needs Help

[Bruce]

GROUP A
Jamaica 3 points, -1 goal difference

GROUP B
Honduras 3 points, -1 goal difference (second place over Haiti)
Haiti 3 points, +1 goal difference NEXT: vs. United States
Grenada 0 points, -6 goal difference

GROUP C
Panama 1 point, -1 goal difference NEXT: vs. Nicaragua
Nicaragua 0 points, -6 goal difference

If I am reading the tiebreaker rules correctly, Jamaica will get a "wild card"
spot in the second round IF:

United States beats Haiti by 3 or more goals.

OR

Panama draws against Nicaragua.

OR

Panama loses to Nicaragua by 1 or 2 goals

OR

3) Haiti beats the USA AND Grenada beats Honduras by fewer than 4 goals.

[Nemesis]

the first tiebreaker is goal difference...el salvador finished third because scored more goals than us.

its the 2 best third place teams that go through.

[Nemesis]

are we out or not........this is from the gold cup site.


http://www.goldcup.org/page/GoldCup/...719571,00.html

MIAMI - Omar Cummings scored with a flick of his right foot in the 70th minute and Jamaica beat El Salvador 1-0 Friday to keep alive its hopes of advancing to the quarterfinals of the CONCACAF Gold Cup.

The result clinched a berth in the final eight for Costa Rica, and left Jamaica third in the group with three points ahead of El Salvador, which was eliminated. Two teams from each of the three groups advance along with the two best third-place teams.

The Caribbean champion will have to wait for the results of the other two groups Saturday and Sunday to see if it advances.

Canada finished atop the group with seven points, three ahead Costa Rica. Jamaica finished ahead of El Salvador due to Friday's victory.

Neither side created much in the game, generating only a handful of chances each in the finale of Group A.

Jamaica started with a bit more possession, but both sides seemed mired in a midfield battle on the artificial turf at FIU Stadium.

Cummings had probably what was the best chance for either team before the goal, working free near the top of the penalty area before unleashing a right-footed shot that Salvadoran goalkeeper Miguel Montes had to stretch to tip it wide of the far post.

Jamaica went ahead when Luton Shelton created space on the left, turned and curled a low, bouncing cross to the near post, where Cummings had worked inside Alexander Escobar and just managed to redirect the ball between Montes and the upright.

El Salvador had its lst chance in the third minute of injury time when Montes' free kick from 19 yards struck the left post.

[Jangle]

Too much Maths and me can barely count past 5.

[Me]

Now even the Gold Cup change and has us in 3rd. When they first updated the table they had us in 4th.

[Rudi]

the first tiebreaker is goal difference...el salvador finished third because scored more goals than us.

its the 2 best third place teams that go through.

El Salvadore didnt finish third in the group we did. Their goal difference is -1 the same as ours. By beating them head to head we are the third place team. We now have to wait for the results of the other matches to see if we can sneek in as one of the two best third place teams.

[Lucky4life]

their is a lot of options for us to go through let just hope that something work out we can't be this bad luck for some not to work out for us,i just hope that if we go through tappa will some serious change to the team